Basket Drain Spout Layout to Prevent Golf Car Deck Splash
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional golf car baskets allow water and liquids to drain onto the rear deck, causing splash and unwanted contact with golf clubs and other items in the bag well.
Innovation Solution
A sweater basket with a solid bottom and hollow drain spouts that direct fluids through strut apertures to the ground beneath the vehicle, preventing splash and contact with deck and bag well contents.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If openings are dispersed across the bottom panel of the sweater basket to allow drainage, then water and liquids can drain out, but they will splash and contact golf clubs and other items in the bag well
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary drainage system consisting of hollow spouts that extend from the bottom panel through openings in the rear deck to discharge water beneath the vehicle. This intermediary structure channels water away from the bag well area, preventing direct contact with golf clubs and other items while maintaining effective drainage functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The drainage system extends the drainage path from a two-dimensional surface drainage (across the bottom panel) into a three-dimensional space (through the rear deck and beneath the vehicle). By creating vertical drainage channels through the hollow spouts, water is directed along a new spatial dimension that bypasses the harmful splash zone entirely
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Effectively channels liquids away from the deck and bag well, ensuring they are deposited under the vehicle, maintaining cleanliness and preventing unwanted contact.
Implementation Method 1
Each drain spout is structured to direct fluid from within the sweater basket through a respective one of the one or more strut aperture to a ground surface beneath the golf car
Data Source
AI summary
A basket for a vehicle, wherein the basket comprises a solid bottom having one or more fluid egress port disposed therein. The basket additionally comprises one or more hollow drain spout extending from an underside of the bottom of the basket, each spout extending from and fluidly connected to a respective one of the one or more fluid egress port.